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i’ll probably be murdered for saying this… but i have zero interest in trying mac. ever. *shrug*
I used to be the same way. I have this aversion to jumping on ‘bandwagons’ ya know. Um Im here to say the hype is very deserved… Seriously. ;c)
I’m the same way! I don’t know why because in my mind I know that MAC has some really good products, but I have absolutely no desire to try them!
haha i was like that until the styledriven cillection came out!
I am with you on this one..
Thank you! I thought I was the only one not in love with the brand. Every single time I buy a lip product from them, I’m disappointed!
Well you know, once you go MAC you never go BACK. lol
You aren`t missing much, mac used to be quite good but is rapidly going downhill!
The pigmentation is no longer there, and it is becoming so gimmicky.
bleh I dont use a single mac product in my professional kit. There are way better brands out there which are less expensive.
SAME! But ive actually tried their stuff, I have to say, over rated.
id say some of there stuff is overrated but the eyeshadows are amazing and the brushes are very sturdy. i still have brushes that ive had since i was 15 when i started wearing makeup – and now im 21. and they aren’t breaking anytime soon
Agreed. A Mac salesperson was rude to me once, so I went to a different counter instead. Won’t ever try Mac because of the bad customer service experience.
it’s not a company’s fault because one employee was rude
No! Any time, any place, I’m ready to try anything.
Tokidoki! I find the packaging so annoying and I think I would almost be too embarrassed to use it, no matter how good it is.
I love a lot of their stuff, but I will never buy one of their eyeshadow singles for this reason.
I couldn’t agree more!
Same here. The packaging annoys me…
ELF
same here!
LOL! I agree; I have no desire whatsoever to try ELF.
Me too! I don’t care if it’s $1… No desire.
I tried some ELF lip gloss and was NOT impressed. Definitely get what you pay for…
Guerlain. I know it’s supposed to be amazing, but there is always something else I’d rather spend my $$ on in Sephora.
i LOVE Guerlain. So expensive but I would give up every other brand just for Guerlain…it’s that good for me. I think you should definitely give it a chance. The face products such as foundations and illuminators are to die for.
I always look at there stuff when I’m at sephora, but I’m with you, I can’t bring myself to spend that much money on a single product.
Sigma. 1 crappy brush was enough for me, not a chance I will be trying their new ‘cosmetics’. Their over-saturated spam-like marketing can has made me never want to see or hear their name again.
LOL they whore* out their brand so much instead of just making good products and letting them speak for themselves.
(*is it inappropriate to use that word here?)
I am thinking the same!!I hate their brushes I don’t even want to try them! I hate all those youtuber beauty people “review” their brushes…. they just want money!
Sigma are horriffic, two replacement brush sets and horrendous customer service later I will NEVER buy from them EVER again.
Any company that tests on animals.
Absolutely agree, Nora! That means any company that is owned by L’Oreal or Shiseido.
I’m with you two, especially the L’Oreal / Shiseido companies.
That’s why UD is so great. Hyped, great quality and Leaping Bunny approved!
Actually, bare escentuals is owned by shiseido and they don’t do animal testing.
Same with NARS, which is owned by Shiseido. Oh, and The Body Shop is I think the only brand owned by L’Oreal that doesn’t do animal testing. But I agree, L’Oreal, Cover Girl (THE WORST!!!!), and Neturogena will not get any of my money!
Yes, but the money that Bare Escentuals makes goes to Shiseido, thus (indirectly) supporting a company that tests on animals.
The sad truth is, that almost every ingredient is tested on animals at some point 🙁 most companies that claim they don’t test on animals, are usually talking about their finished product, not the ingredients. There’s really no way to be sure anymore 🙁
maybe this won’t count, but I tried ELF products before and I was just not impressed by them in any way. I’m sure there are products I would like if I could manage to sift through all the bad ones, but it just feels like a waste of money, even with their affordability. I also have no interest in those 88 palettes or whatever. I don’t have anything against any of those brands, I’m just not interested in buying products from them.
I can’t think of any brands I wouldn’t try but there are lots I haven’t yet because they only do on-line orders and if I can’t see the colors in person, I’m less likely to jump at them.
Wait. No! I was wrong! LOL! NARS. I don’t use any NARS products (even though I’ve been known to like Shiseido from time to time, I greatly limit my purchases from them as well).
Dior, i just don’t see anything that makes me go nuts for, lancome,Giorgio Armani.
Cle de Peau. Don’t shoot me lol, but unless I won some in a contest there is no way I would ever spend that kinda cash. Some stuff is beautiful don’t get me wrong, but I’d rather haul a few things for the price of just one. 🙂
The Brands im not interested in try:
Covergirl
Maxfactor
Maybelline,
Lancome
Loreal
there r many more but this comment would be too long…and the reason is that THEY TEST ON ANIMALS.
I dont want blood on my makeup.
There are a lot of brands for me, actually. I have no interest in trying Urban Decay or Too Faced, simply because it seems like all of their brights? Are sparkly. I like MATTE brights, thank you. I also have no interest in Tokidoki. Also, no to most drugstore brands, because they neither do brights nor offer my shade in foundation.
For some reason I have no interest in OPI nail polish. I can’t remember why, but something turned me off the brand. And I’m someone who has rarely met a nail polish formula I don’t like.
I also don’t have too much interest in a lot of indie retailers. I prefer pressed powder formulas because I’m a major klutz, and also have shaky hands. I’ll do a loose powder foundation, but that’s about it. Except! I don’t purchase foundations I can’t at least look at in person. (I also dislike choosing colours online, because monitor differences and such.)
I always get tempted by almost every makeup brand but “deliplus” from Spain is a brand that doesn´t make me feel that i need it at all….
Hello Kitty, ELF, Too Faced, Cover FX, NARS (maybe their lipsticks), and…well can’t think of anything else ATM cuz I would try at least one thing from other brands. Oh Perfekt and Josie Maran and the new model brand one and possibly even Victoria Secrets cosmetics.
Not really. Every brand should be tried once!
TOM FORD, for an obvious reason.
the packaging is very luxurious and i’ve been seeing good reviews on the lipsticks and eyeshadow quads, but i could still never justify the price. it’s more expensive than guerlain, which i very much enjoy because it is an established cosmetics brand.
I feel you so much on this…it’s like because he has name recognition he can come on the scene and charge an arm and a leg for his products. The sad part is folks will buy it just so they can say they have it, not because it’s BETTER than other products already out there.
Sigma, crown, occ.
Benefit and Too Faced, tried them once and that was enough.
Guerlain or Dior. Just too expensive for my blood.
MAC mostly. But I’m really not interested in any high end products or brands. I can’t really justify spending that much on makeup. I’ll sacrifice a bit of quality for better prices.
TOTALLY agree with you here. (Mainly on your latter statement, not just the MAC part.)
I’ve never had an interest in MAC.
May I ask what you prefer for pigmented eyeshadows or which cosmetic line(s) you use daily?
I’ll try pretty much anything, though I admit the packaging on things like Hello Kitty and Tokidoki tend to turn me off. It sort of taps into this major squick I have about the infantilization/hypersexualization of young women in American culture. I wouldn’t necessarily count them out just because of that, but it’s not something I immediately gravitate to.
Lime Crime, for sure!
I’m SO excited to try lime crime! it’s funny how that works 🙂
Same for me.
DEFINITELY LIME CRIME. no matter how enticing their products might look, their (lack of) ethics are such a major turn off I wouldn’t want to line their pockets in any way.
I’ve never been interested in Benefit. I don’t think the “cute” packaging and names are all that cute. Period. In fact, Benefits just seems rather cheap, child-like, and unprofessional. I mean I get that creativity is important, but Benefit is just too… ugh. *Shudders* I have tried the Hoola bronzer, and it’s chalky and had a ton of fallout. On my skin tone, it appears as a dark muddy, yellow brown. Ew. I agree with Rachel about Tokidoki as well. The “auras” surrounding the two brands just give off hugely negative vibes for me.
Two Faced on the other hand, is able to balance creativity and professionalism, in my opinion of course. Oh, now I thought of the best word to describe Benefit and Tokidoki. They’re like a combination of avant-garde and Toys R’ Us, and not in a good way. Haha, wow I didn’t plan on writing this much. Guess I have feelings that I didn’t know I had.
Sigh. The power of reflection and contemplation. God, I’m a nerd.
i agree with you about Benefit. everything’s sucked thus far, esp. the hoola.. chalk city.
i also dislike benefit. i think they’ve crossed the line between creativity and just making gimmicky products for the sake of trying to make a quick buck. i don’t find their product names witty and everything i’ve tried has been really poor quality, esp. hoola, stay don’t stray, and erase paste.
Poor quality as in…? Not everything is going to work the same for everybody, so it’s a bit silly to say that something is of ‘poor quality’ because everybody has different standards in regards to quality and every product has a specific way you’re supposed to use it in order for it to work correctly.
That’s funny, because I feel that Too Faced is a cheap imitation of Benefit. You can have great products AND fun packaging at the same time. Funny how that stuff works….;]
Well thank goodness that we all have different opinions! If everyone thought like I did, Benefit would go out of business. I guess I prefer sleek vs decorative or frilly, meaning that I like clean lines over clutter. I mean I do prefer TF over Benefit, but that doesn’t mean that TF doesn’t have some atrociously packaged products, like some holiday palettes that are SO crazy, such as the Pixie and Glamourland ones.
I really think you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. Several of Benefit’s products are wonderful, such as their mascaras and highlighters.
E.l.f. Just don’t care even though people seem to like it.
dior and napoleon perdis. yuck!
Hello Kitty
smashbox…… does not apeal to me. I feel like their are products much better for the same price.
Hmm everytime I’m in Sephora I always find myself walking right by these brands: Lorac, Fusion Beauty, Too Faced, Clinique (except maybe their moisturizer), Cover FX, Perricone, and some others I’m sure. I think it’s because either I’ve never encountered any of their marketing/ads that grabs you, the packaging, all of their products are replaceable with higher quality products from other brands that are often at a better value as well, or they don’t have a stand-out product worth trying and well-reviewed.
You HAVE to try Lorac eyeshadows! They’re probably the best I own.
ULTA brand. Sorry! 🙁
Guerlain (lavender scented everything? No thanks!) Lancome, Coastal Scents, Lime Crime.
Hmm…Avon is the first one I can think of. Basically any brand that does stuff I can find in another one, that is safe and boring (I like Illamasqua for a reason…mmm, green lipgloss!). Also, all those weird “mineral makeup” brands that have infomercials, and indie companies like Glittersniffer who are shady. 😡
Napoleon Perdis, because it’s just repackaged La Femme.
Schmink cosmetics, a brand thats upcomming in europe (maybe also in USA?) for me they aren’t interesting products… borring packaging.. way overpriced..
Sigma, I don’t care if youtube gurus rave about it. I’ve bought 3 brushes from them before and it was CRAP..It is garbage compared to MAC..How dare people lie and say it’s the same as MAC for the sake of money.. ugh!! I don’t care if they ever launch an amazing item.. I’ll never let myself buy it..
Companies that do test on animals.
Probably not. If funds were unlimited and access unlimited too, and if I had more storage space, I’d be up for trying just about anything.
Elf cosmetics. i use their nail polish remover pads but i have a hard time believing that their blushes are just as good as nars. and Guerlain, i think their are things out their just as good or better for half the price.
Bare Escentuals (if thats how you spell it) And im no longer interested in trying anything new urban decay comes out with anymore. I find all there palettes look exactly the same to me, and the packaging of palettes are so bulky. Why cant urban decay release a smaller less bulkier palette.
Napoleon Perdis.
Lime Crime & Coastal Scents. I’ve just heard bad things about their business practices and don’t feel the need to give them my money.
Yes, any of the highest end brand like guerlain and armani. I believe they are way over my badget. I love mid-high end brands though.
And elf.
I guess it would be Max Factor. Their products never do me good. I bought my very first mascara in MF, the so-called amazing 2000 calories. But it clumps too much on my lashes. Then I got a lip gloss from MF, I don’t like the smell or texture so I rarely wear it. The worst experience would be one of its liquid eye liners. I was trying out a Amy Winehouse look for fun the other day, it totally dried after I finished one eye. And that eye liner cost me around $10. So I’m quite pissed with MF and have zero interests in any of their products.
Any company using childish packaging…
It just doesn’t look reliable to me. Tokidoki, but also the Hello Kitty collection by MAC. I don’t want my vanity table to look like a 5 years old 😉
this. I dislike a lot of Macs collection packaging including the Wonderwoman collection…. ugh.
I totally agree. I’m not a huge MAC fan but their Wonderwoman and Hello Kitty packaging were so juvenile that it made me not want to try anything from those collections.
Wet N Wild, Elf, Sigma….anything Made in China.
Wow…how do you survive in this reality then when 95% of all products sold in the US are either made or constructed in China?
Kat von D’s brand….no interest at all! In addition to this, any brand who’s darkest shade containing the word beige is such a big disappointment that it turns me off the rest of the line. ( no matter how magnificent)
I feel the same way. Nothing of hers strikes me as anything I just *have* to own.
Pixi, Smashbox, Too Faced. *shrugs*
Napoleon Perdis, for that amount of money i would rather spend it on a better established (and in my opinion) better brand like Chanel or Dior.
Covergirl, Loreal, maybelline, ALMOST any drug store brand for one reason. THEY TEST ON ANIMALS!
Hard Candy don’t. They’re on the Leaping Bunny list. I think they’re owned by UD or the same family of companies.
Anything from the Estee Lauder and L’Oreal groups (Palestine BDS), and most Japanese brands (because the colours rarely show up on me, though the product quality seems good).
Lime Crime because of all the drama.
what’s the drama? i think i’ve missed something!
Usually celebrity fragrances. I really don’t have a strong desire to purposely smell like [insert name of random celebrity here].
I know! They just seem so cheap!
Can I say…JEWELMINT? lol.
What about…items from any of the 128,832,572,973 circle lens reviews I see?
I also only tried covergirl lashblast because it was free, and just as I suspected, I didn’t like it.
Guerlain, Tokidoki, Anastasia, Lorac, Givenchy, Hello Kitty, Hourglass, Smashbox… That’s all I can think of off the top of my head.
Nothing against those lines; I just am not – at all – interested in purchasing anything from them.
Tokidoki.
I have a somewhat ridiculous aversion to Lancôme. I remember my grandmotherly babysitter using it when I was little, and have associated it with old ladies ever since.
Glittersniffer cosmetics… after getting screwed over for like 1600$ of products that turned out to have soap dyes in them and were made in unsanitary conditions, I’ll never go back. Lime Crime *heard too many bad things about them*. Kat Von D stuff.. I’ve only ever heard complaints about that line, the liners are dried out, the palettes are only so/so, the lipsticks with the plastic thing on the bottom are always broken, etc etc.
Elf is the only one that comes to mind. I think I’ve tried so many of the other ones, drugstore, high end, indie, etc.
Any company that tests on animals. Also, Tokidoki, Coastal Scents, Sigma, Kat von D…just random brands with obnoxious packaging or that appeared to have poor quality based on swatching or sampling multiple products. And for some reason I have an aversion to Illamasqua, haha! There’s also those companies where I try a couple things, hate them all, and refuse to buy from them anymore (like Benefit and Too Faced). Even UD is getting on my nerves with their dumb names, bulky packaging, repeat palettes, and glitter fallout – I stick to the Naked Palette and some good eyeshadow shades and that’s it.
Bare Escentuals. The whole mineral makeup thing just irks me. Just because it’s “mineral” does not mean it’s somehow better for your face.
You could make some very pretty green-yellow makeup that glows under black light using the mineral Autunite. How cool would that be?! Until, you know, the Uranium content kills you… Minerals do not necessarily equal healthy.
God, I totally agree with you on this! As a biologist, I’m very much turned off by all the hype being made these days about mineral makeup, organic makeup or antioxidant content, Vitamin C serums, etc. It is just so much crap when you actually get down to the science of it! It just all reminds me of the infamous DNA Shampoo that came out in the 80s(?) when DNA was just becoming such a big deal in the public arena. It is all just gimmicks to lure in the ignorant.
LOL Autunite… I’m a mineral nerd and I just totally imagined smashing an autunite crystal and foiling it on my eyelids. <3
I refuse to use Armani products after they made Megan Fox look like an alien in the Regenessence ads. Why any company would use a 25 year old woman in ads for something called a “youth regenerator” is beyond me. I get that all the companies air brush, but what they did to Megan Fox in those ads was so over the top it was ridiculous. I don’t want to support that nonsense.
Smashbox, Tokidoki, ELF(Except the brushes, Covergirl, Revlon, Benefit,
Another one for Tokidoki here. Not only do I find their packaging ugly and immature, but from the reviews I’ve read their products are either average at best or just plain awful.
Also Lime Crime and Glittersniffer, for obvious reasons.
Chanel. Way overpriced, and I know it’s mostly the name tag that just influences the high price.
L’Oreal, have never tried them and never will due to their testing policy, I have no idea how they sell enough products to stay afloat when it’s widely known that they’re one of the biggest users of vivisection in Europe. That goes for Body Shop too, I could not believe Anita Roddick in selling her business to L’Oreal, after claiming to give a shit about the rights and welfare of nonhuman animals. Give me Lush, Urban Decay, Barry M and so many of the other retailers that do not torture animals.
Im not interested at all in Guerlain, Chanel, Lancome, Estee Lauder, Smashbox, Benefit etc. Just nothing really appeals to me. However up until recently I was not interested in Dior but now I love it and don’t know why I didn’t try it before. Im not really that interested in MAC anymore either though when I first properly got into makeup I went mad for it.
A lot of high end brands I have no interest in. I feel like I can get products just as good from cheaper more accessible brands. there are also brands I’ve completely lost interest in due to their horrible handling of customer services problems (NYX, Julep, Ginger + Liz, etc…)
Bobbi Brown… Just dislike everything from their collections. Also not interested in Smashbox and Inglot
Urban Decay
I don’t know what it is, but something about this brand does not appeal to me. Perhaps its the tacky packaging or the hype.. im not sure, but I really don’t care to ever try it.
I am so glad I’m not the only one who thinks so. I can’t stand Sigma. The whole company just seems shady. They seem to have such a cult following and recently sent some beauty gurus to Paris I guess to encourage them to keep “pushing” these crappy brushes. Makeupbytiffanyd can’t open her mouth without saying “Sigma Sigma Sigma”. She even said she threw away all of her MAC brushes. Stupidest thing I ever heard. Well Sigma is compensating her very well.
Stila, LORAC, and Benefit. Tried each of them once (usually received some product as a sample with a purchase). They do nothing for me.
loreal, its prices border on high end yet its a drug store brand. no thank you.
Yeah alot of the cheaper ones like Stilia, wet and wild, covergirl,jane, bare minerals, the sephora brand, fusion beauty, smashbox, Kat Von D,ELF,or Benefit. I always walk right passed them when i see them.
Benefit, Smashbox (aside from their primers), E.L.F, TheBalm, Guerlain, Tom Ford.
For super high end make-up I stick to Chanel, occasionally Dior. Guerlain and Tom Ford don’t interest me in the slightest for some reason.
Bare minerals – too messy.
Tom Ford – too expensive.
Too Faced. I don’t know what it is, but everytime I go to the counter I pick it up, look at it, put it down and walk away. Nothing ever catches my eye there. Partly because the packaging is a little tacky to me and partly because I just feel like they don’t have much to offer to me. I feel the same way about Lorac, except for their packaging is pretty classy.
Wow! You just picked out my two favorite brands (+ Urban Decay).
Too faced has really great quality (my favorite is their papa don’t peach blush) and really adorable packaging.
LORAC is hit or miss, their eyeshadows and lipglosses are AMAZING!! but their blushes, mascaras are a really really big miss.
Coastal Scents. Ever since Pinkie Charm talked about why she doesn’t use them, it just makes sense.
Sephora brand, Ulta brand, many drugstore brands, Urban Decay, and Too Faced. It’s funny about UD and TF, though, because I love Benefit and Tokidoki. On another note, I’ve always wanted to try Stila, but they’ve never made anything that I actually want.
Kat Von D. I don’t know why, I don’t find her offensive (I’m tatted too) but her line just looks…like it’s made for punk rock wannabe teenagers.
I wanted to buy a palette after I heard her talking about it, but each palette usually comes with a creme shadow that dries the hell out.
I definitely don’t recommend her palettes with cream shadows, it is totally a waste (I bought one on heavy, heavy sale so for the 6 other colors that weren’t cream, it’s ok, but those two are useless.) But I would say and I hate saying, because I find her whole self-branding kind of obnoxious, that the Ludwig palette (the one with browns, coppers and greens) is kind of aces and doesn’t have any cream shadows. Granted, I bought mine awhile ago, so it’s possible it’s been reformulated to include one without my noticing, but I do like the heft and rubberized outsides to her eyeshadow palettes, and that one in particular is a good standard for me (it sees similar use as Naked, in terms of doing mostly neutral looks.)
And this is coming from someone who dislikes her whole image and most of her line, that one palette is…pretty awesome.
It’s cool to watch one of her videos about it, because she’s ALL about gradient. Like, she thought about each palette in the sense of really graceful blending. Which makes sense, because that’s what she’s good at in tattooing.
Probably extremely high-end cosmetics like Le Metier de Beaute. I figure I can probably get something that is similar at a much lower price. There is a limit to how much I will spend on cosmetics no matter how much I love makeup. I can’t really justify spending that much for one product. Even Chanel can be affordable compared to that.
pretty much anything i can’t afford i really don’t want to try. So that includes dior, dolce and gabbana, chanel, tom ford, armani, guerlai, inglot….
I really don’t see anything special about NYX and Covergirl…
So… so… BLAH…
Sephora Brand, Tokidoki & Tarina Tarantino (packaging).
Glittersniffer and Lime Crime for their horrible business practices.
Cle de Peu for the price. I don’t care how awesome that stick concealer is, it can’t be worth the money.
Napolean Perdis for repackaging La Femme.
Smashbox for the boring color range.
Estee Lauder for buying interesting companies and then screwing with the formulas.
Tokidoki, Tarina Tarentino, and Hello Kitty for putting more thought into gimmicky packaging instead of interesting, high quality products.
Clinique was my first masstige experience in my teens and I found them to be inferior to the drugstore makeup I used.
Sigma Sigma Sigma. I am sick of this company.
Illamasqua, Inglot, Tar lip products and any perfume that carries some idiot movie star, rock star, country star, or whatever star’s name on it.
Guerlain. Snore! Everything just looks totally boring and the packaging is always kind of tacky.
Tokidoki, hello kitty, gimmicky Mac collections. Too faced I do own and love the natural pallete but that’s all I’m interested in.
Anything drugstore (doesn’t appeal to me won’t feel excited to use it) elf, sephora brand, Ulta brand, coastal scents freaks me out who knows what’s in it. I do like nyx.
higher end lines that I for some reason I have zero interest in Lancome (aside from bifacil). Elizabeth Arden. clinque. Estee lauder. Dior.
Brands I do find interesting; Mac paint pots, eyeshadows and brushes. YSL touché éclat and lipsticks. Urban decay naked, pencils and all nighter spray. Makeupforever. Armani. Chanel. Benefit blushes. Bobbi brown.
Mail order makeup. Avon. Mary Kay.
Estee Lauder, it remind me of old ladies! lol.
Benefit, don’t find the packaging “cute” and their products are horrible.
What products have you tried that deemed them “horrible”? Surely you haven’t tried every product they’ve made. They actually have some very high quality products.
I never joined into the MAC cult, I think the quality of their products has declined much over the years and am very turned off by new collections coming out every 5 minutes. They have decent brushes, but Japonesque and Studio Gear make just as good if not better.
Stila; just not amused by their packaging or marketing and that’s not necessarily their fault, I’m sure they have some great products. Just nothing seems to be catching my eye.
Kat Von D; I like tattoos, but she’s not my favorite ‘celebrity’ in the whole world and I’m not jumping on the bandwagon to support her. $700 an hour for a tattoo and you don’t even do color? Girl please.
Any of the high end brands – like Guerlain, Dior, Lancome, etc. I’ve heard rave reviews about some of their products, but I’d rather sacrifice a little bit of quality and get something else with a better price instead.
ANY company that tests on animals (and yes, I research every single company I buy from, even for toothpaste), Lime Crime, Coastal Scents, Sigma, Tokidoki, Kat von D, Clinique, Elf, Wet n’ Wild, Avon, store-brand anything (such as Sephora brand), Cargo… the list goes on and on!
Tokidoki, Hello Kitty, Tarina Tarantino, Kat Von D – too gimmicky
Lines that just don’t entice or intrigue me for one reason or another: Lancome, Sephora brand, Lorac, Elizabeth Arden, Inglot, Stila, Bare Escentuals, Smashbox, Urban Decay (except for the Naked palette which I love, can’t stand the whole book of shadows thing they do), NARS (too much glitter in everything)
Most drugstore brands especially the really cheap ones like Wet and Wild and ELF.
Coastal Scents, BH Cosmetics palettes – they’re probably all one and the same anyway.
Indie anything…in fact, I can’t stand the word ‘indie’.
NARS’ names throw me off a bit. I don’t like UD packaging or their names, which are just slang names for drugs. I think it’s tacky. Covergirl has never really interested me. Smashbox is a bit boring. Tom Ford is pretentious. Prescriptives too.
Guerlain, Dior, Lancome, Laura Mercier, Giorgio Armani, Benefit, etc.
I’ve actually had a good experience with Sigma brushes and they do the job for me. That’s not to say that I’m not waiting to get my hands on a set of Mac btushes asap.
Too Faced and Tarte never really appealed to me… neither did Tina Tarantino…. I think it’s that super girly packaging. Turns me off a little bit.
I agree with all of the above.
Anything that is super overpriced! Guerlain, Dior, Cle De Peau, Laura Mercier…their products just CAN’T be worth the price tag they put on them.
Well, call me close-minded, but I wouldn’t try anything that isn’t Make Up Store, Dior, Chanel, Lancôme, Clinique, Estee Lauder and some others.
I find the “indie” (I know they’re not indie, but that’s how I classify them in my mind) like UD, Too Faced, Benefit, Smashbox, Nars, Cargo, Tokidoki and such too inconsistent. I need a pattern.
I’ve tried MAC and I wasn’t impressed: it was a waste of money.
I wouldn’t try cheap drugstore brands either after bad experiences with Nyx eye shadows.
I really do believe that there is atleast one good product from every single brand on the market. That being said, I really am picky when it comes to packaging. I have very minimalistic taste when it comes to packaging. Tokidoki, Too Faced (tacky foundation bottles much?), and Tarina Tarantino just seem too flashy to me. I prefer very classic, sleek, black packaging – think NARS, MAC, Smashbox, Chanel, and Make Up For Ever. However, I absolutely loved the MAC Venomous Villains and Wonder Woman collections’ packaging. I guess my final answer would be Tokidoki, Tom Ford, brands that test on animals, Hello Kitty, and Tarina Tarantino. Tom Ford for the price, animal testers for obvious reasons, and the others for their sheer tackiness
For some reason Dior, Giorgio Armani, YSL, among various other luxury brands do not interest me. I do however buy from Chanel about once a year, love the Illusion D’Ombres. 🙂
I don’t care for Giorgio Armani,Bloom,Red Earth, Avon, Urban Decay and Hard Candy
I really have no desire to try any of the high-end fashion brands (e.g. Dior, Chanel, etc.), any of the brands with the childish cartoony packaging (I’m looking at you, Tokidoki) or anything that costs more than $10 for less than an ounce of product (and even that is pushing it).
However, more than anything I have an intense dislike for Urban Decay. Their eyeshadows all look the same to me, are intensely shimmery, and the packaging is bulky and tacky. Also, does anyone else find the names of their products off-putting? I don’t want to use eyeshadow who’s shade name is a drug reference (Kush, Baked, Blunt, Half-Baked, Twice-Baked, Mary Jane, Maui Wowie, Purple Haze, Toasted… The list goes on). Good lord seriously?!
Mary Kay! Just not interested